FMS-PLN - Technology Integration

Books

Stratosphere: Integration Technology, Pedagogy & Change Knowledge by Michael Fullan
Connected Librarians: Tap Social Media to Enhance Professional Development and Student Learning by Nikki Robertson
Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World by Dan Tapscott
Teaching the iGeneration: 5 Easy Ways to Introduce Essential Skills with Web 2.0 Tools by William Ferriter & Adam Garry
Leading 21st Century Schools: Harnessing Technology for Engagement & Achievement by Lynn Schrum & Barbara Levin
The World is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education by Curtis Bonk
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology: The Digital Revolution & Schooling in America by Allan Collins & Richard Halverson
NetSmart: How to Thrive Online by Howard Rheingold
The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
Generation Text: Raising Well-Adjusted Kids in the Age of Instant Everything by Dr. Michael Osit
Natural Learning for a Connected World: Education, Technology and the Human Brain by Renate Caine & Goeffrey Caine
Global Education: Using Technology to Bring the World to Your Students by Laurence Peters
What Video Games Have To Teach Us About Learning & Literacy by James Paul Gee
The Young & the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future by S. Craig Watkins
Making the Most of the Web in Your Classroom by Timothy Green, Abbie Brown, & LeAnne Robinson
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms by Will Richardson
Classroom Blogging: A Teacher's Guide To Blogs, Wikis, & Other Tools That Are Shaping a New Information Landscape by David Warlick
Secrets of Podcasting by Bart Farkas
The Socially Networked Classroom: Teaching in the New Media Age by William Kist
Podcasting at School by Kristin Fontichiaro
Why Social Media Matters: School Communication in the Digital Age by Kitty Porterfield and Meg Carnes
Professional Learning in the Digital Age: The Educator's Guide to User-Generated Learning by Kristen Swanson
Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom by Sylvia Libow Martinez
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined by Salman Khan
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
Who Owns the Learning? Preparing Students for Success in the Digital Age by Alan November

Articles & Blog Posts

Digital Citizenship Exploration (GREAT explanation of a unit from Langwitches blog)
Stop Trying to Figure Out If Screentime is Good For Students (blog post by Lisa Nielsen)
Engagement Does Not Always Equate To Learning (blog post by Eric Sheninger)
It's Not Going Away (blog post by Alex Couros)
Is Technology Holding Students Back? (article by Joni Nguyen)
Digital Native vs. Digital Citizen: Examining a Dangerous Stereotype (blog post by Mary Beth Hertz)
Digital Natives Unite! (blog post by Bill Ferriter)
My Students Are Not Digital Natives (blog post by Pernille Repp)
How Students Use Technology Outside of the Classroom (article by Julie Tausend)
Students Can't Resist Distraction for Two Minutes...and Neither Can You (article by Bob Sullivan)
7 Things You Can Always Do In My Class With Your Device (blog post by Doug Johnson)
Why K-12 Schools Are Failing By Not Teaching Search (blog post by Jeff Utecht)
Millienials: They Aren't So Tech Savvy After All (article by Brian Proffitt)
How Technology Is Changing the Way Children Think & Focus (article by Dr. Jim Taylor)
Why It's Time To Start BYOD In Your School (blog post by Lee Dunn)
6 Questions to Ask Before Doing BYOD (article by Katie Lepi)
Students Speak Up: Trust Us With Devices (blog post by Holly Korbey)
Don't Punish Everyone (blog post by George Couros)
6 Reasons #ConnectedEducators Should Not Ban, Block, or Censor (blog post by Lisa Nielson)
Edmodo: Social Collaboration For Teachers (blog post by David Carr)
Ten Great Tools for Tech Savvy Teachers (blog post by Laura Bates)
Blended Learning: We Are All New Teachers (blog post by Lisa Dabbs)
4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Choosing Educational Apps (blog post by Frances Judd)
36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do (blog post by Terry Heick)
10 Technology Skills Every Educator Should Have (blog post by David Andrade)
Evaluating Technology Use in the Classroom (blog post by Jeff Utecht)
6 Lingering Obstacles to Using Technology in Schools (blog post)
The World's Simplest Social Media Policy (blog post by Lisa Nielson)
A Great Way to Approach Technology: Pause - Think - Crawl - Walk - Run (blog post by Patrick Larkin)
Better Defining Digital Literacy (blog post by Renee Hobbs)
Case Studies and Examples of Social Media Use in Education (by Wayne Hellmuth)
Stepping Up the Backchannel in the Classroom (blog post by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano)
Five Platforms for a Classroom Back-Channel Chat (blog post by Richard Byrne)
What Do We Really Learn From Videos? (article by Annie Murphy Paul)
I've Copyrighted "Flipped Classroom" (blog post by Troy Cockrum)
Not Flipping for Flipped (blog post by Josh Stumpenhorst)
Ten Ideas for Teaching Teachers Technology (example from an "unconference) (blog post by Monique Flickinger)
It's Vital We Teach Social Networking Skills in School (article by Susan Elkin)
If We Taught Our Teens To Drive The Way We Teach Them About Social Media (blog post by Scott McLeod)
From Smoke Signals to Tweets: How the Evolution of Communication is Changing Your Classroom(blog post by Beth Holland & Shawn McCusker)
12 Must-Have Habitudes for Social Media Success (blog post by Angela Meiers)
Introducing the Digital Learning Quadrants (blog post by Dan Pontefract)

School Internet Filters:

Are School Internet Filters the Forgotten Equity Battleground? (article by Katrina Schwartz)
What's the Impact of Overzealous Internet Filtering in Schools? (article by Mindshift)
Teach Kids To Be Their Own Filters (article by Katrina Schwartz)
Marginalizing the Marginalized with Internet Filtering (post by Doug Johnson)
Fencing Out Knowledge: Impacts of the Children's Internet Protection Act 10 Years Later (report by Kristin Batch)
7 Myths About Internet Filtering (blog post by Doug Johnson)
Best Practices For Meeting CIPA Requirements (article by Doug Johnston)
Censorship by Omission (article by Doug Johnson)
Power Up! Filtering Fallacies (article by Doug Johnson)

The Wikipedia Debate:

Why Wikipedia Does Belong in the Classroom (article by Jonathan Obar)
Why Wikipedia Doesn't Belong in the Classroom (article by Brian Proffitt)
Should Students Use Wikipedia? (article by Rhett Allain)
Student Wikipedia Use Policy (Alan Liu, UC Santa Barbara English Dept)
Study: Wikipedia as Accurate as Britannica (article by Daniel Terdiman)

The 6 Tech Skills Required of All Incoming Freshman (blog post series by Doug Johnson)